It was an acute observation: The prudish Swiss countryside did indeed lack for any of the casual skin that covers France.

To the Editor: The discussion of the Swiss countryside (Travel, April 5), jarred some personal memories.

A tourist, Vera Brandt (Fiore Argento), is chased and beheaded in the Swiss countryside.

T had some time to spare before I could call you, so I took a spin into the Swiss countryside.

He had an interest in medical botany and discovered the plant Reticularia rosea during his outings in the Swiss countryside.

His landscapes from this decade thus depict the French and Swiss countryside in a fully accomplished Realist style.

The two sisters waited out the war in the Swiss countryside, but before it was over, Charlotte died very suddenly.

Upstairs in her suite, she gazed from a latticed window at the sunset beauty of the Swiss countryside.

She seems to reside in the Swiss countryside near the city of Bern at the "House of Frankenstein".

This world seems to exist in the past somewhere in the Swiss countryside near a city named Bern.